Archetype and Character: Power, Eros, Spirit, and Matter Personality Types

by V. Odajnyk

Overview

Introducing a new typology based on Power, Eros, Matter and Spirit as the motivations that define human attitudes and behaviour, the book outlines eight personality types based on the extraverted and introverted deployment of the four drives and applies these typological categories to Freud, Adler and Jung.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349349241
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	01/01/2012
Edition description:	1st ed. 2012
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

V. WALTER ODAJNYK serves as Core Faculty member of the Pacifica Graduate Institute, California, USA. He is a former Assistant Professor of Political Science at Columbia University, USA,and the author of Marxism and Existentialism, Jung and Politics and Gathering the Light: A Jungian View of Meditation. A diplomat of the C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich, he is licensed as a Research Psychoanalyst by the Medical Board of California and a member of the C.G. Jung Study Center of Southern California.

Table of Contents

Foreword Preface Acknowledgments Introduction: Typology The Archetypes of Power, Eros, Pneuma and Physis Power, Eros, Physis and Pneuma Personality Types Soulful and Spirited Temperaments Temperament and Theory: Freud, Adler and Jung Sigmund Freud: Introverted Spirited Power Physis Type Alfred Adler: Extraverted Soulful Physis Eros Type C.G. Jung: Introverted Soulful Power Pneuma Type: I C.G. Jung: Introverted Soulful Power Pneuma Type: II Conclusion Appendices Appendix I: Jungian Archetypal Typologies Appendix II: Primacy of Spirit in theI Ching Addendum: Archetypal-Motivational Typology Scale Notes Bibliography Index